This information sheet and the 2009 NCAA Graduation-Rates Report
have been prepared by the NCAA, based on data provided by the
institution in compliance with NCAA Bylaw 30.1 and the Federal
Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act. Each NCAA
Division I college or university is required to distribute this
sheet and the report to prospective student-athletes and parents,
as specified in Bylaw 13.3.1.2.

The graduation-rates report provides information about two
groups of students at the college or university identified at the
top of the form: (1) all undergraduate students who were
enrolled in a full-time program of studies for a degree and (2)
student-athletes who received athletics aid from the college or
university for any period of time during their entering year.
[Note: Athletics aid is a grant, scholarship, tuition waiver
or other assistance from a college or university that is awarded on
the basis of a student's athletics ability.]

The report gives graduation information about students and
student-athletes entering in 2002. This is the most recent
graduating class for which the required six years of information is
available. The report provides information about
student-athletes who received athletics aid in one or more of eight
sports categories: football, men's basketball, baseball,
men's track/cross country, men's other sports and mixed sports,
women's basketball, women's track/cross country and other women's
sports. For each of those sports categories, it includes
information in six self-reported racial or ethnic groups:
American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian or Pacific Islander,
Black, Hispanic, Non-Resident Alien, White and Other (not included
in one of the other six groups or not available) and the total (all
seven groups combined).

A graduation rate (percent) is based on a comparison of the
number (N) of students who entered a college or university and the
number of those who graduated within six years. For example,
if 100 students entered and 60 graduated within six years, the
graduation rate is 60 percent. It is important to note that
graduation rates are affected by a number of factors: some
students may work part-time and need more than six years to
graduate, some may leave school for a year or two to work or
travel, some may transfer to another college or university or some
may be dismissed for academic deficiencies.

Three different measures of graduation rates are presented in
this report: (1) freshman-cohort rate, (2) graduation success
rate (GSR) and (3) exhausted-eligibility rate. The
freshman-cohort rate indicates the percentage of freshmen who
entered during a given academic year and graduated within six
years. The GSR adds to the first-time freshmen, those
students who entered midyear, as well as student-athletes who
transferred into an institution. In addition, the GSR will
subtract students from the entering cohort who are considered
allowable exclusions (those who either die or become permanently
disabled, those who leave the school to join the armed forces,
foreign services or attend a church mission), as well
as those who would have been academically eligible to
compete had they returned to the institution. The
exhausted-eligibility rate indicates the percentage of
student-athletes who used all of their athletics eligibility at
this college or university and who graduated by August 2008.

1.
Graduation-Rates
Data. The box at the top of the graduation-rates
report provides freshman-cohort graduation rates for all students
and for student-athletes who received athletics aid at this college
or university. Additionally, this box provides GSR data for
the population of student-athletes. [Note:
Pursuant to the Student Right-to-Know Act, anytime a cell
containing cohort numbers includes only one or two students, the
data in that cell and one other will be suppressed so that no
individual can be identified.]

a.
All students. This section provides the freshman-cohort
graduation rates for all full-time, degree-seeking students by race
or ethnic group. It shows the rate for men who entered as
freshmen in 2002-03 and the four-class average, which includes
those who entered as freshmen 1999-00, 2000-01, 2001-02 and
2002-03. The same rates are provided for women. The
total for 2002-03 is the rate for men and women combined and the
four-class average is for all students who entered in 1999-00,
2000-01, 2001-02 and 2002-03.

b. Student-athletes.
This section provides the freshman-cohort graduation rates
and also the GSRs for student-athletes in each race and ethnic
group who received athletics aid. Information is provided for
men and women separately and for all student-athletes.

c. Student-athletes
by sports categories. This section provides the identified
graduation rates as in 1-b for each of the eight sports categories.
(The small letters indicate the value of N.)

d. Graduation
rates of those exhausting eligibility. This section provides
the graduation rates of student-athletes who entered during the
1993-94 through 2002-03 academic years and exhausted their
eligibility at the college or university. The rate indicates
the percentage who had graduated by August 2008.

2.
Undergraduate Enrollment
Data.

a. All
students. This section indicates the number of full-time,
undergraduate, degree-seeking students enrolled for the 2008 fall
term and the number of men and women in each racial or ethnic
group.

b. Student-athletes.
This section identifies how many student-athletes were
enrolled for the 2008 fall term and the number of men and women in
each racial or ethnic group.

c. Student-athletes
by sports categories. This section provides the enrollment
data as identified in 3-b for each of the eight sports
categories.

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